Man's Call To Salvation

God reveals Himself through deeds and words that we may be led to Everlasting life.

1. By natural reason man can know God with certainty, on the basis of His words. But there is another order of knowledge which man cannot possibly arrive at by his own powers: the order of divine Revelation. Through an utterly free decision, God has revealed Himself and gives Himself and gives Himself to man. This He does by revealing the mystery, His plan of loving goodness, formed from all eternity in Christ, for the benefit of all men. God has fully revealed this plan by sending us His beloved Son,our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit.

2. Vatican II, Divine Revelation

By divine Revelation God wished to manifest and communicate both Himself and the eternal decrees of His will concerning the salvation of mankind. He wished, in other words," to share with us divine benefits which entirely surpass the powers of the human mind to understand."

3. Catechism for Filipino Catholics

...Filipino Catholics experience God's Self-Revelation today. First, God shows Himself in the natural signs of the beauty and abundance of our natural resource and our rich Filipino culture. Second, the biblical signs in God's inspired Word in Scripture,reveal Him. Third, though the Church's liturgical signs we encounter the Risen Christ in the Sacraments. Finally, God makes Himself known to us through the ecclesial signs of the Church's proclamation of the Creed and in Her moral teachings and commitment to service.
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